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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 10609060, member: 360"]Basic brass polish would do for cleaning the metalwork. As for dealing with the woodwork, I'm not an expert on that. I suspect you'd have to sand it down, use wood-filler, and then stain it all up again to get a consistent colour. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, the wood sheating was not particularly thick on these telescopes, I don't think, so you'd have to be careful with doing that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 10609060, member: 360"]Basic brass polish would do for cleaning the metalwork. As for dealing with the woodwork, I'm not an expert on that. I suspect you'd have to sand it down, use wood-filler, and then stain it all up again to get a consistent colour. That said, the wood sheating was not particularly thick on these telescopes, I don't think, so you'd have to be careful with doing that.[/QUOTE]
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